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NREL researchers point toward building energy efficiency instead of long-term storage

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Incorporating energy efficiency measures can reduce the amount of storage needed to power the nation’s buildings entirely with renewable energy, according to analysis conducted by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). —William Livingood.

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DOT awards more than $45M to three Connected Vehicle Pilot sites for phase two

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The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) awarded three cooperative agreements collectively worth more than $45 million to initiate the design/build/test phase of the Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program. Selected in 2015, the Connected Vehicle Pilot sites include Wyoming, New York City, and Tampa. Earlier post.).

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Westinghouse and Ameren Missouri form NexStart SMR Alliance for rapid licensing and deployment of Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor technology; targeting operation in 2022

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The Westinghouse SMR is the company’s next product innovation building upon the concepts and advances in technology achieved in the Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power plant design, the only Generation III+ reactor to receive Design Certification from the US NRC, initially in 2006 and again in 2011.

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US DOE Awarding Up To $62M for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development

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eSolar will design, build, and test a CSP power plant system with fundamentally new components. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne will build on and advance the current solar power tower plant design. Awards under this category focus on research and development of concepts and components that could be part of a CSP baseload system.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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will conduct a one-year “proof-of-concept seedling” program. Florida, Tampa). to demonstrate proof of concept for hydride-based thermal. residential and commercial buildings, where there are. production units, storage units, and consumers (homes, buildings, microgrids, utility systems). nuclear applications.

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

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Concepts like ultra-low emission zones (ULEZ) and levering connected vehicle technologies to police driving from an environmental and social standpoint are rooted in the key principles of Vision Zero. .& Many of the promoted solutions exist to inconvenience motorists in a bid to discourage them from driving entirely.

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Dannar brings a multipurpose electric platform to the off-highway market

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Instead, they build generic chassis/cab combinations, and leave it to other companies (called upfitters ) to build specialized bodies, some of them custom-designed for specific customers. ” Charged : Multipurpose means building different types of vehicles on the same platform? . Gary Dannar: Exactly.

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